Writer's Block: Le Quatorze Juillet

[bethnoir]

[Error: unknown template qotd] So many wonderful things about France, but I think Rimbaud followed by crepes :-)

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[wolfy-codex.livejournal.com]

Hm, well I've been trying to think for a good while now of something French to write about but have finally come to the conclusion that asking me to think of a favourite anything is like asking an octopus to try and do a handstand. Where does one begin?! :P

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

I like that image, an octopus could make a handstand look like a piece of art I think. Of course in retrospect, I could have chosen many things, I just chose for that second. When I lived with a french family for a couple of weeks in my teens, everything was amazing, the hot chocolate and biscuits for breakfast, the snowy streets of Paris, the Louvre, Notre Dame. Then when I went on a school history trip, Chartres cathedral, the cheapness of the wine, the scariness of the Metro. Then with my family, the paintings in L'Orangerie, the food, the predatory expressions of french men, many things made impressions on me and there was my teenage love of the novelist Colette which I had totally forgotten until after I made my response....

[wolfy-codex.livejournal.com]

I think did hear once in the commentary of some TV nature documentary or other that octopi, in a biological anatomical sense, actually have six tentacles and two arms. Strill next time I meet an octopus I shall suggest it try a handstand and witness the results. You never know, I might end up learning things about the universe I could never have imagined!

Oh, don't say that the Metro is scary though! I'll be all alone on it myself in a month's time for planned big family holiday in French chateaux. Well, I have to get across Paris from Charles de Gaulle airport to Montmarte train station anyways. Internet instructions seem to offer Metro routes although a friend of my Dad's said there was a bus that goes direct. We shall see. Hopefully I'm not going to get lost in Paris. I've done the south of France before but not spent any real time in the north. Mayhap whem I'm back I'll be able to tell you what my favourite French thing is. Though I doubt it. :P

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

the Metro was only scary because it was me and my teenage friend Andrea trying to get to Sacré Coeur, misunderstanding the map and finding ourselves in a carriage that seemed to fill up with less and less reputable looking men the further we went. I'm sure a sensible person like you with map reading skills and planning ahead would be fine. Also I doubt you'll be in a very short black skirt and feeling self conscious because of it!

[wolfy-codex.livejournal.com]

Well I hopes that your faith in me proves well placed. Still I can be scared making a cup of coffee, so I'm going to be a bit scared of my travels come what may. Map reading skills I have, not sure what makes you think I've ever been any good at planning ahead though! Still, hopefully my experience of British travels combined with my rather basic grasp of French wil see me through. Still I wont be packing my short black skirt then for my travels, thanks for you advice. ;P